Playboy Club Pits Joel Gretsch Vs. Eddie Cibrian

Eddie Cibrian’s Playboy Club character, Nick Dalton, has Big dreams — the Chicagoan wants to be elected State’s Attorney. But to claim that office, he’ll have to grapple with Joel Gretsch first.

Gretsch, an alum of such futuristic fare as V and The 4400, is joining the 1960s-flavored NBC drama in the recurring role of the incumbent State’s Attorney, our sister site Deadline.com reports. The politico will also be a semi-regular frequenter of the show’s titular establishment.

Gretsch is great, just not great enough to make me watch Playboy Club. I’ll still hope he might pop up again on In Plain Sight after he vibed so well with Mary, even if her personal life is a little, uh, complicated.

I hope the fact that we are hearing so much casting news is because they are moving steadily along with the episode order, meaning that we will at least get one full season out of this show. Can’t wait!!!

I agree in that eddie cibrian is TERRIBLE for this role. I just saw him in a lifetime movie off netflix and he is cardboard as an actor and a poor man’s don draper. Were there no talented people available for this show? Joel is the only one so far that actually has a shot.